THE BOWER Reuse & Repair Centre in Redfern, New South Wales | Environmental conservation organisation

THE BOWER Reuse & Repair Centre

Locality: Redfern, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9568 6280

Address: 107 Redfern Street 2016 Redfern, NSW, Australia

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24.01.2022 Meet Adrian & Lisa from Arnie’s Recon, a like-minded organisation working hard to increase awareness of the benefits of Reuse. Arnie’s Recon is one of many organisations featured in The Bower’s Reuse Database. If we’re unable to take your household items the Reuse Database can direct you to an organisation who can. You can access the Reuse Database via this link: https://bit.ly/2FYAj1V But back to Arnie’s Recon:... How we work is by taking people’s unwanted items to where they’re wanted. Reuse is the most efficient and least impactful form of recycling. Adrian & Lisa work with a community of families in Africa who are teaching orphaned young men how to repair and sell devices and appliances in order to sustain themselves. Pick up is free within the Sydney Metro area. What is too damaged for reuse is used for parts or recycled as scrap. Nothing goes to landfill. #reuse #reuseforever #repairdontreplace #reuserevolution #choosetoreuse #reuseit #reusereduce #socialenterprise #environmentalenterprise #trailblazers #closetheloop #narrowtheloop #prolongproductlifecycle cc Arnies Recon.

23.01.2022 Jyotsna Bakre will be selling her beautiful wares at The Christmas Edition of our Parra Pickers Trash & Treasure market on Sat Dec 5 between 4-9pm. She uses paper quilling techniques to craft Christmas ornaments and cards, photo frames and decorative tea light candle holders using discarded CDs. Beautiful and simple, handmade and waste-free. Sustainable Christmas gift giving FTW! Parra Pickers is on Sat December 5 at Bower Reuse & Repair Centre, Parramatta. For workshop an...d market info visit our website: https://bit.ly/3lV9dZp cc @art_by_jyotsna #parrapickersnightmarket #parramatta #liveableparramatta #sustainablechristmas #handmade #handmadewithlove #craftychristmas #handmadegifts #papercrafts #quilling #reuse

22.01.2022 Upholstery! We have an Introductory Upholstery course coming up in Parramatta on Sat Nov 28; a three-hour workshop during which you’ll learn the basics for upholstering a flat surface. The session includes advice on suitable fabrics to work with, measuring and cutting foam and padding and what timbers to use for creating the base and then you can make beauties like this one (swipe!) crafted by one of our workshop facilitators Annette Mayne. Clever woman. Course info about ...our Introductory Upholstery Course and the Furniture Repair & Painting courses that we’re offering at our Parramatta premises is available via this link: https://bit.ly/36KJ7TW Significant discounts for Parramatta locals with thanks to City of Parramatta. @renewedbyannette #renew #upholstery #upholsteryfabric #reuse #refurbishedfurniture #refurbish #repurpose #furniturerepair #repair

12.01.2022 Workshop Update There are a couple of places left in this weekend’s Introductory Upholstery Course at Parramatta. In just 3 hours you will learn basic techniques that will allow you to upholster a flat surface by creating your own milk-crate upholstered seat base. This workshop includes choosing appropriate fabric, measuring and cutting foam and padding and what timbers to use for creating the base, and will set you on your way for experimenting with more upholstery techniqu...es in future! Generous discounts apply for Parramatta residents with thanks to @cityofparramatta. You’ll never look at a milk crate in the same way again. We’re also offering an online Clothing Repair Cafe via Zoom this weekend. Join our sewist Kate and let her talk you through the basic skills you need to repair clothes you’d like to continue wearing: change elastic, fix hems, repair a dodgy zip and sew on. See what we did there? Register for our Online Repair Cafes here: https://bit.ly/2TbPrvU #repair #reuse #mend #diyproject #diyprojects #diyhomedecor #sewistsofinstagram #sewist #sewists #workshops #repaircafes #repaircafe #onlinerepaircafe #upskill #upskilling #upskillyourself #bowerpower #staplegun

12.01.2022 We’re on the hunt for more workshop facilitators and repairers. If you have knowledge of electronics, furniture, bicycle or clothing repairs we want to hear from you. Expertise not required, just enthusiasm and a degree of knowledge coupled with a desire to share.... If this sounds like you please visit our website (https://bit.ly/38Bj42G) or email [email protected] Pictured: Some of our current flock of facilitators come join them! #reuse #repair #community #facilitators #facilitator #community #instructors #teachersofinstagram #educateyourself #electricalrepairs #furniturerepair #bicyclerepair #bikesbikesbikes #mendit #clothingrepair #mendyourclothes

06.01.2022 The Bower is particularly vibing on the theme of Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week in 2020: ‘Recovery A future beyond the bin’. We’re not going to recycle our way out of this one; we reckon reducing and reusing is key.... Enter Buy It Back Day on Saturday November 14 a day to celebrate National Recycling Week through reuse! That’s a celebration we can get behind and what better way to celebrate than with a SAUSAGE SIZZLE! Yes, join us at our Marrickvillle Store and help us celebrate reuse. With a sausage! All proceeds will be put towards The Bower’s House to Home program which sees us divert quality used household goods from landfill while helping asylum seekers and survivors of domestic violence. The sizzle kicks off at 11. You can Buy It Back from us any day of the week! #reduce #reuse #narrowtheloop #closetheloop #NationalRecyclingWeek #GoBeyondtheBin #zerowaste #sustainableliving #repair #repairdontreplace #wastefreeliving #climateaction @planetark

04.01.2022 Berlin - you are cool. How do we encourage the reuse of items that still have life in them? How do we make the idea of reuse appealing to all social groups and not just the environmentally conscious? Maybe this is how. Excellent read by Klaus Sieg on David Byrne’s ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’.... If a system existed to resell those items to consumers who would otherwise purchase new ones, the environmental benefits would be almost incalculable. Think about all of the resources and energy that a single new item requires: the extraction of raw materials, the production, the transport, the storage. Factories, trucks, warehouses millions of them all of which need to be fueled up, climate controlled, flooded with light and washed down. Discuss! https://reasonstobecheerful.world/berlin-second-hand-used-/ #circulareconomy #reasonstobecheerful #davidbyrne #klaussieg #circular #circularaustralia #closetheloop #closedloop #circulareverything #reuse #repair #choosetoreuse #repairinsteadofreplace #sustainability #choosetoreuse #sustainability #environmentalbenefits

04.01.2022 Another of our consignors, Brian, dropped some beautiful and interesting pieces into us yesterday all on the shop floor and ready to be snapped up. I like to reinvent anything and everything out of whatever I can find, says Brian. I used to watch a cartoon called ‘The Wombles’ when I was growing up; they made things out of rubbish and I think those lessons stuck. We think so too because making a doorstop out of salvaged construction aggregate from building sites is GENIU...S. Brian finds salvaging and refurbishing challenging yet rewarding work: It’s great when things work but I have a serious amount of disastrous crap as well. You can’t be afraid to fail when you do this kind of work; any creative will tell you that. All of the good things I’ve produced have resulted from numerous failings to get there. But I think recycling and upcycling is so very important in this day and age; it is so satisfying to keep some of these items out of landfill and reuse them in clever ways. I can’t stand waste. Hear, hear! Salvaged Aggregate Door Stop with Circle Ring $65 Upcycled Sewing Machine Drawer Wine Rack $65 Refurbished Filing Cabinet Bedside Table $180 Upcycled Panel Cupboard $110 Set of Two Drawers $90 Table with Inlay $80 Brian/Womble combo Priceless Call The Bower on 02 9568 6280 if you’d like to purchase one of these pieces and can’t get into the store quickly. If you’re interested in selling items on consignment in our store please email [email protected] #reuse #reuseguru #refurbishedfurniture #refurbish #repurpose #repurposed #consignment #salvage #pickers #wombles #thewomblesofwimbledon #thewombles #80skids #80skidstv #woodwork

03.01.2022 Free All Ages Workshop at Parra Pickers - MYO Decorations Using Traditional String Making Practice We’re feeling really fortunate to have educator, maker and bushcraft practitioner Dave ‘Harry’ Harrington (aka Stone & Bones) leading workshops at Parra Pickers on December 5. Dave will lead workshop participants through some traditional weaving practices to create Christmas decorations using reclaimed materials - including shiny bits & bobs from The Bower. Embrace the art of D...IY this Christmas; make your own Christmas decorations incorporating traditional aboriginal weaving techniques. Beautiful! Info & Bookings here: https://events.humanitix.com/parra-pickers-all-ages-craft-y# #sustainablechristmas #liveableparramatta #parramatta #parrapickers #reuse #savedfromlandfill #craft #handicraft #craftychristmas #makeityourself #myo #handmade #parraparents #parramums #familytime #familycraft #parradads

01.01.2022 Congratulations to Planet Ark on the launch of their Australian Circular Economy Hub (ACE Hub); a resource to inform and inspire all of us as we transition to a circular economy. The hub contains case studies, guides for business and government and is a platform for sharing information and other valuable resources. Fingers crossed for the future of this new endeavour; here’s to all of us working towards facilitating this big change.... #ACEhub #circulareconomy #circularaustralia #reuse #repair #CloseTheLoop #narrowtheloop #sustainability https://acehub.org.au